/courtlistener/opinions/search
Search US court opinions by full-text query, court, judge, citation, date and citation count
Price: 1 credit per 20 results
💡 AI Hint: Search US court opinions (case law) on CourtListener. Combine a full-text query with filters for court, judge, case name, docket number, reporter or neutral citation, filing date range, citation count range and precedential status; order by relevance, filing date, citation count or argument date. Each result is an opinion cluster with case name, court, docket, citations, citation count, judges, status and the individual opinions (lead, concurring, dissenting) with snippets and download links.
Authorizations
API token from the dashboard
Headers
Body
Number of opinions to return
x >= 1Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds)
20 <= x <= 1500Full-text query over opinion text, case name and metadata
Court id(s) to filter by, space-separated
"scotus"
Filter by authoring or panel judge name
Filter by case name
Filter by docket number
Filter by reporter citation
"576 U.S. 644"
Filter by neutral citation
Only opinions filed on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
Only opinions filed on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
Only opinions cited more than this many times
x >= 0Only opinions cited fewer than this many times
x >= 0Filter by precedential status
Published, Unpublished, Errata, Separate, In-chambers, Relating-to, Unknown Result ordering
score desc, dateFiled desc, dateFiled asc, citeCount desc, citeCount asc, dateArgued desc, dateArgued asc Response
Successful Response